'In Suriname, an endless refrain: boom, bust, and Bouterse', an article by Rosemarijn Hoefte on news site The Conversation: "Recent street protests in Suriname haven’t made many international headlines. Only ...

In this 9th CCC Newsletter, you will find updates on the research, publications, exchanges and what have you of the various team members, including our new colleague Malcom Ferdinand. His observation...

Thank you for taking the time to read our very first Traveling Caribbean Heritage (TCH) Newsletter, of which many more will follow in the years to come. We will strive to publish an issue every three months or so...

Rosemarijn Hoefte has been elected president of the ACH, the Association of Caribbean Historians during their annual conference in Tobago. The ACH is an independent, non-profit, professional organization ...

"What does it mean to be Aruban, Bonairian or Curaçaoan? In the Traveling Caribbean Heritage project historian Gert Oostindie studies this question together with PhD candidate Joeri Arion and heritage specialist ...

The Literary Encyclopedia has just published a new entry on Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, authored by Kasia Mika, postdoc researcher at KITLV. Edwidge Danticat (1969) is an award-winning Haitian...

“What should we do with academic institutions inherited from a cruel past? Are such institutions reformable, or should they simply be decommissioned? Or, for that matter, literally be burned down in the hope ...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 1,100 digitized maps of the Caribbean will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested....